Improvement in horse-powers



that@ /tne anni (tithe Letters Patent No. 109,114, dated'4 November 8,18.70 antedated October 29, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-POWERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, RUF'US W. Gnonsn, ofWestninster, in the county of Carroll and State of Maryland, haveinvented a new" and useful Improvement in Horse-Powers; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a partof this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a transverse verticalsection; and

Figure 2 is a plan view.

The invention' is an .improvement on thatfor which Lett-ers Patent N o.95,440, dated October 5th, 1869, was issued to Ditendal and Hughes.

In their machine the bevel-pinion which turns the tumbling-shaft is soplaced in' connection with the main driving-pinion as to receive motioninthe wrong direction, 01' that which runs the machine backwz rd, nnlessthe horse travels with the sun instead of against the snn, horsesusually travel when following a circle. As all horses very much preferto travelagainst thesun, and do not work well when traveling )with it,this peculiar-ity of the Ditfendal and Hughes horse-power amounts to adefect, which io is the object of my invention to remedy.

Another objection to the Ditfendal and Hughes power is, that theirtumbling-shaft extends heneath the main driving-pinion only far enoughto sustain its bevel-pinion beneath one-sident the former, and, as theinner end of the shaft is, therefore, directly beneath the maindriving-pinion, the cellpling-box can only be applied to the outer endof the shaft.

My invention consists ina' tumbling-shaft extending entirely across thespace beneath the main driving-pinion, and bearing a coupling-box at-both ends, so that connection may be made ateither extremity; andabevel-pinion placed on the tumbling-shaft in such connectionV with themain driving-pinion as to receive motion in the right direction when thehorses are traveling with the sun.

In the 'drawinga is the main driving-pinion, mounted on the top of anarched bridge, l);

c, the tumbling-shaft extending beneath the arched bridge, and hearing acoupling-box, d, at each end; and

c, the bevel-pinion, on the -tuuiblingshaft, placed beneath the oppositeside of the driving-wheel a, from the same pinion in the Diffendal andHughes power.

Having thus described my invention,

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent, is-

lhe tumbling-shaft c, when extended entirely across the space beneaththe driving-wheel a, in order that coupling-boxes may be placed on bothends ot' the shaft, and when used in connection with the bevel-pinion c,so placed in reference to the drivingwheel as to receive motiontherefrom in the right direction for the machine while the horses aretraveling against the sun.

lo the above specification ot my improvement I have set my hand this21st day of March, 1870.

y R. lV. CR-OUSE. \Vitnesses:

JOHN M. Ymenir, E. F. ltnnsn.

